The First 2009 Departs

I had a day off from work on February 15th and the sun was out, so I decided to head down to the Fort Worth ITC in the morning to see if the mid day TRE from Dallas would have RDC’s. After leaving the house I heard the BNSF 792 South get clearance through Tower 55, so I headed to the Gambrell Street crossing just south of Seminary Drive where I bagged this shot of a loaded grain.

There was a single GE shoving on the rear in DPU mode.

Arriving at the ITC a few minutes later I set up at the grade crossing north of the depot. A few minutes later Train 2921 arrived, but with standard equipment instead of the Budd cars I had hoped for.

I drove back south looking for another shot and wound up composing this one out the SUV window as F59 number 566 quickly overtook me and crossed over Lancaster Avenue on the approach to the T&P depot.

As my eyes followed the TRE train towards the depot I saw a UP train in the background that looked like it was about to go south towards Ney Yard. The radio identified it as the MFWEW train, so I relocated to Arizona Avenue on the east side of the Choctaw Sub where I took this photo a few minutes later.

In a moment I recognized the trailing unit as a Fort Worth & Western. When it passed by I could see it was the original 2009, a GP50 problem child that was traded back to NREX in return for a GP40-2.

A phone call confirmed this and that the first 2009 was now a NREX lease unit on its way to an un-named industry in the Houston area. So far the second 2009 has been working out well for the FWWR.